The colugo (Cynocephalus variegatus, Dermoptera): The primates' gliding sister?

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2308-2312

  Schmitz, Jürgen ^a   Ohme, Martina ^a   Suryobroto, Bambang ^b   Zischler, Hans ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b BOGOR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Colugo; Cynocephalus variegatus; Mammalian phylogeny; Mitochondrial genome

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAPHYLY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PROSIMIAN; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ANTHROPOIDEA; CYNOCEPHALIDAE; CYNOCEPHALUS VARIEGATUS; DERMOPTERA; EUTHERIA; LEMUR; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI; TRANSPOSONS;

ANIMALS; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0036898942     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004054     Document Type: Article

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